During a nighttime attack on July 7, a group of assassins fatally shot President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti and wounded his wife, Martine Moïse, in their private residence on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The assassination rocked the nation, stoking fear and confusion among residents and the Haitian diaspora about what is to come. […]
During a nighttime attack on July 7, a group of assassins fatally shot President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti and wounded his wife, Martine Moïse, in their private residence on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The assassination rocked the nation, stoking fear and confusion among residents and the Haitian diaspora about what is to come. […]
A US judge has dismissed a $95m lawsuit targeting comedian Sacha Baron Cohen over a “paedophile detector” joke in his 2018 TV series Who Is America? US Senate candidate Roy Moore took the case to court complaining he was tricked into an interview for the show that lampooned sexual misconduct accusations against him. The segment […]
WASHINGTON – The United States stands with South-east Asian claimants and rejects China’s unlawful maritime claims in the South China Sea, the State Department said on Tuesday (July 13) following Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first meeting with Asean foreign ministers. The statement underscored the Biden administration’s stance on the South China Sea issue for […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new school guidance on Friday, calling for a full return to classrooms in the fall and recommending that masks be optional for fully vaccinated students and staff. But the guidance left a lot of details up to state and local governments, advising districts to use local coronavirus […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously on Tuesday (July 13) to finalise a US$1.9 billion (S$2.5 billion) programme to reimburse mostly rural US carriers for removing equipment from telecommunications networks from Chinese companies deemed national security threats like Huawei and ZTE Corp. Last year, the FCC designated Huawei and ZTE […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States on Sunday (July 11) repeated a warning to China that an attack on Philippine armed forces in the South China Sea would trigger a 1951 US-Philippines mutual defence treaty. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the comment in a written statement marking the fifth anniversary of a ruling by […]
LOS ANGELES • The western United States and Canada started this week with scorching temperatures, with heat warnings still in place and the authorities struggling to bring wildfires under control in both countries. Sweltering conditions hit much of the Pacific seaboard and as far inland as the western edge of the Rocky Mountains over the […]
A wildfire in California that has ripped through more than 9,000 acres in just 48 hours is threatening to burn parts of the Yosemite National Park. The treasured park, which is famed for its ancient trees and towering mountain ranges, is within 20 miles of the raging River Fire which is being blown towards Yosemite […]
OREGON (REUTERS) – In a failed attempt to escape a record-breaking heatwave in late June in Pendleton, Oregon, more than 100 baby birds bailed from their nests. The downy babies, mostly Swainson and Cooper’s hawks, fell up to 18 metres to the ground. Most survived and will be returned to the wild once recovered, but […]